Book conversations

Life challenges

Book conversations is a series of live online conversations with non-dual spiritual teachers who have recently published a book. We'll focus on themes from the book that are of interest, helpful, or inspiring. If you have read the book and want to ask a question, you can either send it in or ask it in person during the second half of the event.

Life challenges is a series of live online conversations with non-dual spiritual teachers who are dealing with challenging situations in their own lives. The intention of these conversations is to invite teachers to share their experience and their reflections openly and candidly so that this can serve as a model and teaching to all of us as to how life challenges can be met in an aware and awake way, and how they can serve as teachers.

Previous life challenges conversations have covered loss and grief, cancer, caring for a parent with dementia, presence in the workplace, the essential challenge, chronic dis-ease, and facing depression.You'll find all the topics and videos HERE.

BOOK CONVERSATION:Gail Brenner: Suffering is OptionalWe were looking at themes from Gail's new book, Suffering is Optional: A spiritual guide to freedom from self-judgment & feelings of inadequacy. The book is a combination of direct path invitation into freedom and detailed inquiry into the conditioned thought and emotions that obscure it. A non-dual self-help book -- if such a thing is possible -- with practical exercises, yet always pointing to our inherent wholeness and freedom.To watch the video of the conversation go to the event page.

BOOK CONVERSATION:Eli Jaxon-Bear: The Awakening of a spiritual revolutionarySunday, 19 August 2018, 11am PDT, 2pm EDT, 7pm UK, 8pm Europe (check other time zones).This conversation is based on Eli's new book, An Outlaw Makes it Home: The Awakening of a Spiritual Revolutionary. In this deeply personal memoir, he describes his early life and journey of spiritual searching, from the civil rights marches in Alabama to his time as a federal fugitive during the Vietnam War, from the uncharted outback of Peru to a monastery in Japan. It is in India that Eli meets Papaji, ultimately ending his search for freedom and finally finding true love and fulfillment.For more details go to the event page.

Online groups:

ONLINE GROUP: Awakening as Love monthly groupMeeting once a month to find Love/Truth in all aspects of your lifeOngoing, there is space for you to join>> CLlCK HERE to find out more.The group meetings are a beautiful, sacred space of loving inquiry into your experience in the moment, however that shows up. They bring the support of small group satsang to your own ongoing inquiry and spiritual unfolding. They are heart-opening and mind-altering… in the best sense!

Past events:

2nd HEALING AND AWAKENING RETREAT (Dec 2016)A weekend retreat with non-dual spiritual teachers who also have a background as healers or therapists, exploring the meeting ground between the Western therapeutic tradition and Eastern and non-dual spiritual teachings.Find out more details about the retreat on the RETREAT EVENT PAGEof the Healing and Awakening website.To watch the videos from this event >> CLICK HERE.

AWAKENING IN THE HEART RETREAT (December 2015)A retreat day with non-dual spiritual teachers Jon Bernie, Unmani, Will Pye, and Grace Bubeck, inquiring into the role of the heart in awakening.To watch the videos from this event go to Awakening in the Heart Retreat under the Retreats tab, or >> CLICK HERE. Find out more details about the retreat on the RETREAT EVENT PAGE.

SPECIAL EVENT: FACING DEATH (October 2015) *** An occasion to inquire into what is still a taboo topic in our Western societies, from a non-dual perspective: ***To watch the videos from this event go to Special Online Events under the Retreats tab, or >> CLICK HERE.To see the event page, click here, or on the Facing Death poster.

Love Live: a gathering in the Heart(The first two Love Live events took place on Valentine's weekend and Easter Sunday 2015)

*** A community event, gathering to inquire into Love, with nondual spiritual teachers as surprise guests ***

To watch the videos from these events click on Love Live under the Retreats tab, or >> CLICK HERE.

Awakening as Love: The place of the heart in non-dual spiritual teachings(A live, online retreat that took place in November 2014)

With:

Gangaji

Mooji

Tim Freke

Gina Lake

Nirmala

Miranda Macpherson

Susanne Marie

Canela Michelle Meyers

Retreat host and organizer:

Grace Bubeck

You can recreate the retreat experience for yourself during a weekend! You'll find the videos from all the sessions HERE. To find out about future retreats, sign up to the newsletter HERE.

About the retreat:

What is it that wakes up: the mind, the heart, or both?Do heart openings and its aspects (love, joy, celebration, bliss) contribute to awakening, are they part of awakening, or are they simply a by-product of awakening? Can heart-centered practices distract us from awakening, as they suggest a need to continue a practice in time instead of pointing us directly beyond time? Are they caught in a duality of self and other?What is the place of the heart and of heart-centered practices (if any) after awakening?

These are some of the questions that I asked during the conversations with the nondual spiritual teachers who are participating in the retreat. You find the videos of all the sessions HERE.

“In its full realization, the fundamental reality is a boundless love, a selfless love, that is both empty and extraordinarily full and rich beyond measure.” Adyashanti

About Living from Love:

My intention for all the Living from Love live, online events isthat they be:a space where Love communicates itself in and through the conversations;a space that invites all of us to open to and rest in this Love;a space that brings us together in Truth and Love, and that supports us in integrating these in our own lives.

How can our lives become an expression of the Love that we are? How is the Love/Truth that is realized in spiritual awakening lived in everyday life?Are devotional or other heart-opening practices helpful in connecting us with Love,or are they a distraction from realizing the Love that is always here? If everything is Love, why is there so much violence and hatred in this world?

These are some of the questions that are answered in the conversations and retreats. The conversations are with teachers and mentors in the nondual spiritual tradition, who have dedicated their lives to the transmission of the reality they have awakened to. They contribute their insights, their answers to these questions, and their own experience of living from Love.

You'll find videos from all the past retreats and conversations under the retreats tab or >> CLICK HERE.For more information about the teachers and retreat host, see: >> Teachers.

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